Post Offices
Mail delivery first began in North America during the seventeenth century. Prior to the availability of the telegraph, telephone, radio, television, or worldwide web, mail served as the only means of written communication between different locales. The United States’ early mail system proved to be primitive, slow, and often undependable. But as the nation grew, so did its postal system. As American settlers moved west and occupied new lands, their commerce and communication needs demanded dependable, affordable mail service. One of the new places served by the nation’s postal service was Arkansas.
Information about Arkansas post offices on this webpage includes the name of the post office, date of establishment, location, and county. Sources used in compiling this data include official postal service records, “Records of Appointments of Postmasters, Arkansas, 1832-1871” and “Geographic Site Location Reports, 1852-1945.” Also utilized were various editions of the Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat, several volumes of the Territorial Papers of the United States, and the Works Projects Administration’s “List of Post Offices in Arkansas 1817-1874, Inclusive.” The most comprehensive printed compilation of post office information is found in Arkansas History Commission Archival Manager Russell Baker’s Arkansas Post Offices from Memdag to Norsk: A Historical Directory, 1832-1990, published by the Arkansas Genealogical Society.
Post Office |
Est. |
Closed |
Location |
Comments |
Almond |
1879 |
1966 |
1-12N-8W |
From Independence County, 1883; Mail to Locust Grove |
Altuna |
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See Yuba |
Arel |
1888 |
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18-12N-10W |
Was to be California; Changed to Gadsden, 1892 |
Arklow |
1915 |
1916 |
14-11N-11W |
Was to be Tinch; Local name, Lone Pine; Mail to Stark |
Banner |
1879 |
1971 |
34-12N-8W |
From Independence County, 1883; Mail to Concord |
Brewer |
1906 |
1957 |
17-12N-11W |
Named for George B. Brewer, Postmaster; Mail to Edgemont |
Brownsville |
1898 |
1934 |
9-11N-10W |
Mail to Miller |
Caldren |
1897 |
1914 |
2-11N-8W |
Was to be Massey |
California |
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See Arel |
Cannel |
1894 |
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Changed to Higden, 1895 |
Concord |
1946 |
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12-12N-8W |
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Coras |
1891 |
1906 |
15-12N-9W |
To Stone County, 1900 |
Corn |
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See Miller |
Darcy |
1894 |
1914 |
22-9N-10W |
Mail to Heber Springs |
Davis |
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See Gin |
Desdemona |
1897 |
1912 |
18-9N-8W |
Mail to Pangburn |
Drasco |
1917 |
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34-12N-9w |
Was to be Mascott |
Dughill |
1901 |
1923 |
5-11N-9W |
Mail to Drasco |
Dundas |
1895 |
1895 |
5-10N-8W |
Mail to Hiram |
Edgemont |
1908 |
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8-11N-11W |
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Energy |
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See Wilburn |
Fatty |
1895 |
1896 |
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Fin |
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See Wilburn |
Fivemile |
1909 |
1935 |
21-12N-9W |
Mail to Drasco |
Gadsden |
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1894 |
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Changed from Tina, 1892; Mail to Shiloh |
Gin |
1886 |
1906 |
23-10N-9W |
Was to be Davis; Mail to Wilburn |
Goff |
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See Waco |
Grove |
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See Madelia |
Heber Springs/Heber |
1881 |
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14-10N-10W |
From Van Buren County, 1883 |
Higden |
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24-11N-12W |
Changed from Cannel, 1895 |
Hiram |
1882 |
1956 |
33-10N-8W |
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Ida |
1891 |
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14-11N-9W |
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Kinderhook |
1837 |
1894 |
7-11N-11W |
From Van Buren County, 1883; Mail to Shiloh |
Leo |
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See Tina |
Libbie |
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1928 |
35-10N-9W |
Changed from Snell, 1921; Mail to Heber Springs |
Lone Pine |
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See Arklow |
Madelia |
1893 |
1917 |
25-10N-12W |
Was to be Grove; Mail to Higden |
Mascott |
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See Drasco |
Massey |
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See Caldren |
McJester |
1923 |
1936 |
23-10N-8W |
Was to be Ramsey; Mail to Pangburn |
Melrose |
1903 |
1908 |
6-12N-8W |
Mail to Wolf Bayou |
Moorehead |
1910 |
1919 |
7-11N-8W |
Was to be Corn; Mail to Heber; Was to be Taft; Mail to Ida |
Oakland |
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See Woodrow |
Pearson |
1884 |
1954 |
11-19N-11W |
Mail to Quitman |
Prim |
1892 |
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12-12N-11W |
Named for George W. Prim, Postmaster |
Prior |
1891 |
1891 |
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Quitman |
1848 |
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30-9N-11W |
From Van Buren County, 1883 |
Ramsey |
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See McJester |
Shiloh |
1871 |
1954 |
2-10N-10W |
Mail to Heber Springs |
Snell |
1907 |
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35-10N-9W |
Changed to Libbie, 1921 |
Standiff |
1910 |
1921 |
25-12N-12W |
Mail to Edgemont |
Stark |
1899 |
1917 |
21-11N-11W |
Named for John B. Stark, Postmaster; Mail to Shiloh |
Taft |
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See Moorehead |
Tina |
1887 |
1912 |
15-12N-8W |
Was to be Vileo or Leo; Mail to Wolf Bayou |
Tinch |
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See Arklow |
Trust |
1881 |
1883 |
19-9N-8W |
From White County, 1883; Mail to Pangburn |
Tumbling Shoals |
1921 |
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36-11N-10W |
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Tyler |
1889 |
1948 |
35-11N-8W |
Mail to Heber Springs |
Tyndall |
1892 |
1893 |
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Vileo |
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See Tina |
Waco |
1881 |
1904 |
23-10N-11W |
Was to be Goff; From Van Buren County, 1883; Mail to Heber |
Wilburn |
1900 |
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7-10N-8W |
Was to be Finn or Energy |
Wolf Bayou |
1851 |
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25-12W-9N |
From Independence County, 1883 |
Woodruff |
1914 |
1957 |
20-12N-10W |
Was to be Oakland; Mail to Prim |
Yuba |
1890 |
1907 |
8-9N-9W |
Was to be Altuna; Mail to Darcy |